Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-26
NEW YORK AND THE TARIFF.
Why the Party f p. election was RoundIy
Rebuked on Nov, mber 8.


Rebuked on Nov mber 8.
Mr.. j. S. Moore, under date of New
York, November II, wrote as follows to
the New York Times:
Now that the smoke of the election
battle has cleared away, and people can
once more breathe freely and not be stiff
led by the sulphurous vituperations that
for month have disgraced decency, it
would well behoove all good citizens TO
look calmly at the result, and take the
lesson 1t teaches to heart. Leaving out
the local elections Of New York ci y and
county, which arrayed rival journals
against each other even more tnan the
rival candidates for the district attorneys
office, we must search FIR the reason why
the great stee Of New York should have
rolled up 8 msj )rity of over 1900 for
the Democratic party.
The NV York Sun, journal until
very lately apparently opposed to the ad-
ministrstion, no friend to the Democratic
party and the most energetic emissary to
foment dissensions between the crest
m ilrity of Democratic tariff reformers
ana the small Democratic Pennsylvania
protection faction, has most unwittingly
but most sagsCiously supplied the real
reason for this larg~ Democratic majority
In this state. The Sun says:
The Republicans have fought the battle
on national issues in the state. Senators
Evarts and Hlscock and other Republi-
cans Of great repute have been speaking
throughout the state, and to a great ex
tent have coLfiaed themselves to national
issues.
This statement is perfectly true, as eve
rybody knows. But what were these na-
tlonsl issues2 Let me supply them. On
the % of September the Democratic
Convention met at Saratoga, and the last
plank in the platform, which was passed
without dissenting voice, read as fol-
lows:
Wnereas, the unnf cesssry Federal tax
s,inn of the last fiscal year exceeded
500, 900 coo, and unnecessary taxation is
III just taxation;
Tneref re the Democracy of New York
demand hat Federal taxation be straight
way reduced by sum not less than
500, 200, 900 year, and also respectfully
urge upon Congress that a measure shall
be adopted which will, in the language of
the Presidents inaugural address, re-
lieve the people Of unnecessary taxa
ton, having due regard to the iutere SITS
of capital invested aud workipgmen EN-
pioyed in American INDUSTRIES" The
taxes 10 be first reduced or altogether re-
moved are those on imported raw mate
rials, which now assist and promote for
eign competition with ourselves in our
own markets and prevent OR hinder the
sale of our surplus products in
foreign markets. Along with those
taxes should be forthwith re-
United or reduced the taxation
which increases the cost to our wage
esrners of the common necessaries of
life aud the price of the common daily
ciothipg.of oil our people. Besides the st
there ar several hundred ARTICLES among
the 1882 articles now taxed which should
be swept off the tax list into the free list,
thereby diminishing the cost of
collecting all our seaport taxes and
casting away those which are petty,
needless and vexstious. We also urge
an immediate enactment of the measures
prepared by Mr.. Manning and Mr.. Hewitt
ana reported to the last House by the
committee on ways and means to syste
matte, simplify and economic the ms
cninerY for the collection of the custom.
revenue, and especially for making cor
rect apprsisemsnts of foreign values
wherever ad Vaiorem rates of duty shall
be retained
Now, there can be no doubt of two
things in the ABOVE plank First, that it
trests purely and simply upon national
issue; and second, that it is the most out
spoken, fearless, fat footed demand made
upon Congress TO reduce the present un-
heard-of tariff oppression. For
many years have the upholders
and adv Gates Of our "boodle
tariff" maintained (snd justly, too,) that
the Democrats cid not dare to make
tariff reform q fair and square issue.
Well, at last the gauntlet mas been not
only thrown down, but right in the face of
the "boodle tariff" by the fearless and
honest Democratic ate convention at
Saratoga. The Sun, which, IS everybody
knows, is wool-dyed protectionlst
journal, which advocates free whisky,
Tree beer and free tobacco, and no reduc-
ton or meddling with the present in
famous tariff, is best qualified, and, in